Stunning Audio Should Result in Lifetime Ban for Gregg Williams

The allegations of a bounty program were bad enough, but the audio recording of Gregg Williams in the locker room should remove the coach from the NFL for life.

Until recently, Williams was respected as one of the better defensive coordinators in the league.

Unfortunately, the New Orleans Saints coach received an indefinite suspension from the NFL when the league discovered that he was paying players to hurt opponents.

There are many ways to win a football game, but intentionally trying to injure opponents should not be one.

Everyone knows that football is a physical and dangerous sport. Defenders consider it their job to hit the ball carrier as hard as they can.

Fans should also not be naive enough to think that no other players around the league attempt to take opponents out of the game.

The difference is that Williams used his pregame speech to tell his team what players they should take out and how. CBS News broke down two specific cases:

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Wide receiver Michael Crabtree's already-damaged knee ligament was an apparent target.

"He becomes human when you (expletive) take out that outside ACL," Williams says.

Wide receiver Kyle Williams, coming back from a concussion, was a target too.

"That little wide receiver, number 10, about his concussion. We need to (expletive) put a lick on him right now," Williams says on the tape.

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This was not a case of a coach telling his players to play hard, it was a calculated report for destruction.

If this is what Williams considers coaching, he is completely wrong. Why not save time and just hire people with baseball bats to take out the athletes at home?

It is very possible that this type of discussion happens at every game around the league. 

However, Roger Goodell and the NFL need to make an example out of the defensive coordinator by showing that this is unacceptable behavior.

Coaches should start to figure out how to win games with schemes, not bounties. 

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